6 stories mention Mark Antony on DeadlyCurious.
On 2 September 31 BC, off western Greece, the fleets of Octavian and of Antony and Cleopatra met at Actium. Cleopatra's squadron broke out mid-battle and Antony followed her, abandoning his fleet and army — which surrendered. Within a year both were dead in Alexandria, Egypt was a Roman province, and Octavian was on his way to becoming Augustus.
Read the story →Cleopatra VII killed herself at Alexandria on approximately 10 August 30 BCE, eleven days after her partner Mark Antony's suicide and three weeks after the city's fall to Octavian. The conventional account of the Egyptian cobra concealed in a basket of figs is first attested by Plutarch a century later. A 2010 reanalysis by Christoph Schaefer argued for a self-administered poison mixture as the more plausible cause of death.
Read the story →Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times by approximately 60 Roman senators in the curia attached to the Theatre of Pompey on the morning of 15 March 44 BCE. The post-mortem examination concluded that only one of the 23 wounds — the second, to the chest — was independently fatal. The assassination triggered the 14-year political-military struggle that produced Augustus's monarchy and ended the Roman Republic.
Read the story →Ptolemy Philadelphus was born to Cleopatra and Mark Antony in 36 BC, the third of their three children together. He was four years old when his parents died and his siblings were taken to Rome. The Roman record loses him after approximately 30 BC. His fate is unknown.
Read the story →Cleopatra and Mark Antony had three children. The boys died young. The daughter Cleopatra Selene II was raised by the wife of the man who had killed her parents and married off to a North African client king. She named her son Ptolemy. He was killed by Caligula.
Read the story →According to Plutarch, Mark Antony stripped the library at Pergamon — the second-largest collection in the Hellenistic world — and gave its 200,000 volumes to Cleopatra. The story is probably exaggerated. The library was certainly emptied.
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